Hooray! Gmail Priority Inbox has finally hit iPhone via the web version of Gmail for iPhone. If you’ve activated Gmail Priority Inbox in the browser version it’ll now work on the Gmail mobile version which has hopped onboard with HTML5. That HTML5 version of Gmail will also work on any phone that plays nice with HTML5 but Android already got Priority Inbox in its native Gmail app.
Out now | £free | Google
The new Apple TV hasn’t got apps yet as such but it does not how a new browser option. The FireCore aTV Flash (black) browser is an Apple TV hack which has been outed in beta. It’ll work with the new Apple TV running the iOS-based 4.0 software. As well as an HTML5-compatible browser, it packs a Last.fm app. We’re promised expanded format support and networked storage smarts in a future update. The Apple TV browser hack will set you back $20 on preorder, jumping up to $30 for the final version.
Out now | $20 | Fire Core
Today Adobe showed off a neat new tool currently in prototype, codenamed Edge. It’s a tool to build HTML 5 web pages, which means it’s in competition with Adobe Flash. If Adobe is offering tools to build Flash and HTML 5, is it getting into competition with itself, and dealing Flash a fatal blow in the process?
Adobe is showing off a raft of spangly new tools, and this is one of our favourites: a tool codenamed Edge. Edge is a prototype for building HTML 5 graphics and animations, and it’s all about the way your page moves. In other words, Adobe wants to be the HTML 5 Louie Spence to your sloppy-thighed web page. But more importantly, this seems to be a direct competitor to Flash. Is Adobe admitting that Flash is dead?
Windows Phone 7 hasn’t hit the shelves yet but it’s already scored a win in a showdown against the newly arrived Blackberry Torch 9800. Pitted in a battle of the browsers, a Windows Phone 7 prototype outclassed the freshly picked Blackberry and the new Blackberry 6 OS. Is it just a one off or a real worry for RIM?
iPad video support could be headed to hundreds of top websites thanks to web video provider Brightcove. It’s announced that it will offer an HTML5 framework to customers which will allow them to offer iPad video as well as support for the iPhone and iPod Touch.